8th century BC
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What happened around the world
Europe
- 776 BC First Olympic Games — By tradition, the start of Greek dating by Olympiads
- c. 753 BC Founding of Rome — By legend, Romulus plants the seed of a future empire
- c. 750 BC Homer's epics — Troy and Odysseus' wanderings open European literature
Middle East
- 763 BC Assyrian eclipse — One eclipse record anchors the timeline of the ancient Near East
Africa
- c. 727 BC Kushite conquest of Egypt — Nubian pharaohs take the throne and revive old traditions
Who ruled
- China: dynasties
- Zhou 1046 BC – 256 BC
- Rome and Byzantium
- Roman Kingdom 753 BC – 509 BC